BEIJING/WAM UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan held talks today with His Excellency Zhao Leji, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) of China, to discuss bilateral relations and opportunities for further collaboration in the economic, developmental, and parliamentary fields. The meeting came on the first day of His Highness’ state visit ...

BEIRUT/WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) has provided various medical supplies to support the healthcare sector in Lebanon, as part of its ongoing humanitarian initiatives in the Lebanese arena. The gesture is in line with ERC’s commitment to contributing to enhancing health services provided for the Lebanese people. Through its delegation currently in Beirut, the ERC delivered large quantities of ...

BEIJING/WAM UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and His Excellency Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, witnessed today a ceremony to announce, exchange, and sign several agreements and memoranda of understanding (MoUs) between the UAE and the People’s Republic of China, across a range of cooperation areas. The ceremony took place as part ...

BEIJING/ WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China met today in Beijing to discuss bilateral relations and opportunities to enhance cooperation within the framework of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the two nations. The discussions took place in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, where ...

BEIJING/ WAM An official reception ceremony was held today in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to mark the state visit of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to the People’s Republic of China. His Highness was welcomed by Chinese President His Excellency Xi Jinping and a number of senior officials. His Highness joined President Xi to ...

SINGAPORE / WAM Asian stocks were a sea of red on Thursday and bonds slid on bets global interest rates would stay higher for longer, as investors looked to key inflation readings at the end of the week for further clues on the future path of monetary policy, Reuters reported. The dollar rode US Treasury yields higher while commodity prices ...

ABU DHABI / AD MEDIA OFFICE His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, has offered his condolences on the passing of Saeed bin Ahmed Al Otaiba, at the majlis of Dr Mana Saeed bin Ahmed Al Otaiba, in Al Manhal, Abu Dhabi. His Highness expressed his deepest sympathies to the family for ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), in collaboration with Petuum and LLM360, has launched “K2-65B”, a ground-breaking open-source 65-billion parameter large language model (LLM). K2 sets new standards in transparency and performance for open-source artificial intelligence (AI) by providing a blueprint for documenting and studying the full lifecycle of LLMs, including all reproduction details. ...

DOHA / WAM Sheikh Rashed bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, Vice President of the National Olympic Committee (NOC), led the UAE delegation to the 36th meeting of Presidents of GCC National Olympic Committees, hosted by Qatar in Doha. During the meeting, the attendees adopted several recommendations from the General Secretariat, urging Gulf NOCs to increase specialised sports courses and workshops to ...

ABU DHABI / AD MEDIA OFFICE The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (Adio) has collaborated with Khazna Data Centres (Khazna) to boost Abu Dhabi’s data economy and strengthen its position as a hub for technology and innovation. Khazna will build an advanced data centre in Mafraq, Abu Dhabi, with an initial capacity of 30MW, leveraging government-owned land as part of a ...